Just a quick note to update an earlier article submitted by taddzilla. A couple days ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation posted a petition in order to represent...

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Even though this seems like great news, I have question about this though. Wouldn’t the authenticity of the signatures be subjected to scrutiny? Seeing as they’re obtained over the internet and there’s no way to keep someone from signing it as many times as they want.

Greatwolf-each “signature” has several required fields with an asterisk, including email address physical address etc. Everything but your jock size. EFF has hopefully gotten the procedure for a properly filled out petition form from Washington. That way if it is contested they can verify the names I guess.